LCD Stackup Repair: Not For the Faint of Heart
?w=764" alt=""/>Coming straight to the point: [Ron Hinton] is significantly braver than we are. Or maybe he was just in a worse situation. His historic Acer K385s laptop suffered what we https://hackaday.com/2025/02/23/lcd-stackup-repair-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/23/lcd-stackup-repair-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/
NEMA Releases Standard for Vehicle-to-Grid Applications
?w=800" alt=""/>Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) has been hailed as one of the greatest advantages of electrifying transportation, but has so far remained mostly in the lab. Hoping to move things forward, the National https://hackaday.com/2025/02/22/nema-releases-standard-for-vehicle-to-grid-applications/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/22/nema-releases-standard-for-vehicle-to-grid-applications/
A Web-Based Graphics Editor For Tiny Screens
?w=800" alt=""/>These days, adding a little LCD or OLED to your project is so cheap and easy that you can do it on a whim. Even if your original idea didn’t https://hackaday.com/2025/02/22/a-web-based-graphics-editor-for-tiny-screens/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/22/a-web-based-graphics-editor-for-tiny-screens/
The Perfect Pi Pico Portable Computer
?w=800" alt=""/>[Abe] wanted the perfect portable computer. He has a DevTerm, but it didn’t quite fit his needs. This is Hackaday after all, so he loaded up his favorite CAD software https://hackaday.com/2025/02/22/the-perfect-pi-pico-portable-computer/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/22/the-perfect-pi-pico-portable-computer/
Retrotectacular: Ham Radio As It Was
?w=800" alt=""/>We hear a lot about how ham radio isn’t what it used to be. But what was it like? Well, the ARRL’s film “The Ham’s Wide World” shows a snapshot https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/retrotectacular-ham-radio-as-it-was/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/retrotectacular-ham-radio-as-it-was/
Pocket Device Tracks Planets And The ISS
?w=800" alt=""/>Ever been at a party and landed in a heated argument about exactly where the International Space Station (ISS) is passing over at that very instant? Me neither, but it’s https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/pocket-device-tracks-planets-and-the-iss/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/pocket-device-tracks-planets-and-the-iss/
A New 8-bit CPU for C
?w=800" alt=""/>It is easy to port C compilers to architectures that look like old minicomputers or bigger CPUs. However, as the authors of the Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) found, pushing https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/a-new-8-bit-cpu-for-c/
3D Print Yourself A Split Flap Display
?w=800" alt=""/>Split flap displays! They’re mechanical, clickety-clackity, and largely commercially irrelevant in our screen-obsessed age. That doesn’t mean you can’t have a ball making one of your own, though! [Morgan Manly] https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/3d-print-yourself-a-split-flap-display/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/3d-print-yourself-a-split-flap-display/
Pico Gets a Speed Bump
?w=800" alt=""/>The release notes for the 2.1.1 Raspberry Pi Pico SDK have a late holiday present: The RP2040 chip is now certified to run at 200 MHz if you use at https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/pico-gets-a-speed-bump/
Reconstructing 3D Objects With a Tiny Distance Sensor
?w=800" alt=""/>There are a whole bunch of different ways to create 3D scans of objects these days. Researchers at the [UW Graphics Lab] have demonstrated how to use a small, cheap https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/reconstructing-3d-objects-with-a-tiny-distance-sensor/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/reconstructing-3d-objects-with-a-tiny-distance-sensor/
Add a Little WOPR to Your Server Rack
?w=800" alt=""/>Like so many of us, [aforsberg] found themselves fascinated with the WOPR computer from WarGames — something about all those blinking LEDs must speak to nerds on some subconscious level. https://hackaday.com/2025/02/19/add-a-little-wopr-to-your-server-rack/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/19/add-a-little-wopr-to-your-server-rack/
In a World Without USB…
?w=800" alt=""/>It is easy to forget that many technology juggernauts weren’t always the only game in town. Ethernet seems ubiquitous today, but it had to fight past several competing standards. VHS https://hackaday.com/2025/02/19/in-a-world-without-usb/
Belfry OpenSCAD Library (BOSL2) Brings Useful Parts and Tools Aplenty
?w=640" alt=""/>OpenSCAD has a lot of fans around these parts — if you’re unaware, it’s essentially a code-based way of designing 3D models. Instead of drawing them up in a CAD https://hackaday.com/2025/02/18/belfry-openscad-library-bosl2-brings-useful-parts-and-tools-aplenty/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/18/belfry-openscad-library-bosl2-brings-useful-parts-and-tools-aplenty/
Vacuum Forming With 3D Printed Moulds And Sheets
?w=800" alt=""/>Vacuum forming is perhaps one of the less popular tools in the modern maker arsenal, something which surprises us a bit because it offers many possibilities. We’ve created our own https://hackaday.com/2025/02/18/vacuum-forming-with-3d-printed-moulds-and-sheets/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/18/vacuum-forming-with-3d-printed-moulds-and-sheets/
Give Your Animal Crossing Villagers the Gift of Linux
?w=800" alt=""/>If you’ve played any of the versions of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing over the years, you’ll know that eventually you get to the point where you’ve maxed out your virtual house https://hackaday.com/2025/02/18/give-your-animal-crossing-villagers-the-gift-of-linux/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/18/give-your-animal-crossing-villagers-the-gift-of-linux/
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Cutting Board Keyboard
?w=800" alt="Illustrated Kristina with an IBM Model M keyboard floating between her hands."/>Doesn’t this look fantastic? Hard to believe it, but the base of this keyboard began life as a cutting board, and there’s a gallery to prove it. This is actually https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-cutting-board-keyboard/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-cutting-board-keyboard/
Graphene Tattoos: The Future of Continuous Health Monitoring?
?w=800" alt=""/>In the near future, imagine a world where your health is continuously monitored, not through bulky devices but through an invisible graphene tattoo. Developed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, https://hackaday.com/2025/02/16/graphene-tattoos-the-future-of-continuous-health-monitoring/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/16/graphene-tattoos-the-future-of-continuous-health-monitoring/
Piano Gets an Arduino Implant
?w=800" alt=""/>[Paul] likes his piano, but he doesn’t know how to play it. The obvious answer: program an Arduino to do it. Some aluminum extrusion and solenoids later, and it was https://hackaday.com/2025/02/16/piano-gets-an-arduino-implant/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/16/piano-gets-an-arduino-implant/
Curious Claim of Conversion of Aluminium into Transparent Aluminium Oxide
?w=475" alt=""/>Sometimes you come across a purported scientific paper that makes you do a triple-check, just to be sure that you didn’t overlook something, as maybe the claims do make sense https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/curious-claim-of-conversion-of-aluminium-into-transparent-aluminium-oxide/
How To Find Where a Wire in a Cable is Broken
?w=800" alt=""/>Determining that a cable has a broken conductor is the easy part, but where exactly is the break? In a recent video, [Richard] over at the Learn Electronics Repair channel on https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/how-to-find-where-a-wire-in-a-cable-is-broken/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/how-to-find-where-a-wire-in-a-cable-is-broken/